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RE: RE: DOCBOOK: Problems creating pdf file of tdg
- From: Kraa de Simon <Simon dot de dot Kraa at icl dot nl>
- To: 'Bob Stayton' <bobs at caldera dot com>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:53:01 +0100
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: RE: DOCBOOK: Problems creating pdf file of tdg
Hello Bob, everyone,
I installed TeX from the TexLive CD on Win2K.
Copied (installed?) the PassiveTeX macros to .\TeXLive\texmf\tex\passivetex.
Ran mktexlsr.exe to update the file lookup table.
Created a FO file using Saxon.
Created a wrapper file called test.tex:
\def\xmlfile{test.fo}
\input xmltex
Ran pdfTeX:
pdflatex test.tex
This results in an error... (see below for test.log)
If you have any idea...?
Thanks again,
Simon.
test.log:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-pre-1.0-unofficial-20010704 (Web2c 7.3.3.1)
(format=pdflatex 2002.2.14) 14 FEB 2002 12:52
**test.tex
(./test.tex{d:/Program Files/TeXLive/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg}
LaTeX2e <2000/06/01>
Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, polish, loaded.
(d:/Program Files/TeXLive/texmf/tex/xmltex/base/xmltex.tex
xmltex version: 2000/09/07 v1.8y (Exp)
\XML@attribute@toks=\toks14
\XML@ns@count=\count79
\XML@catalogue=\toks15
\XMLgrabtoks=\toks16
Encoding = utf-8 (d:/Program Files/TeXLive/texmf/tex/xmltex/base/xmltex.cfg)
<snip> <snip> <snip>
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for LELA/omsela/m/n on input line 1.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 1.
LaTeX Font Info: Checking defaults for LETI/omseti/m/n on input line 1.
LaTeX Font Info: ... okay on input line 1.
LaTeX Font Info: Try loading font information for T1+ptm on input line 1.
(d:/Program Files/TeXLive/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/t1ptm.fd
File: t1ptm.fd 2000/01/12 PSNFSS-v8.1 font definitions for T1/ptm.
)
Package hyperref Info: Link coloring OFF on input line 1.
LaTeX Info: Redefining \ref on input line 1.
LaTeX Info: Redefining \pageref on input line 1.
(./test.out)
(./test.out)
\openout3 = `test.out'.
1: hyphenation none, to replace en
1: hyphenation en, to replace none
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again>
\Odd:
l.1 ...="en"><fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:block><fo:block
font-f...
? x
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
9664 strings out of 50466
103939 string characters out of 440145
156527 words of memory out of 1500001
12527 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+15000
8456 words of font info for 23 fonts, out of 210000 for 1000
34 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000
47i,1n,32p,6737b,1220s stack positions out of
3000i,500n,3000p,200000b,5000s
No pages of output.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@caldera.com]
Sent: vrijdag 8 februari 2002 22:15
To: Kraa de Simon; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: RE: DOCBOOK: Problems creating pdf file of
tdg
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:49:52PM +0100, Kraa de Simon wrote:
> I tried an evaluation version XEP from RenderX and it did a very good job
> converting XSL FO to PDF.
>
> It's a bit too expensive for me ($5000 for single CPU) so I'm looking for
> another good XSL FO to PDF engine.
>
> Any suggestions? (already tried FOP)
You should try PassiveTex:
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/TEI/Software/passivetex/
I find it works better than FOP.
But getting it working can be a bear.
I've never gotten PassiveTex working over an existing
TeX installation. There were always fatal errors,
of a type that didn't make enough sense to me to fix.
I have gotten PassiveTex working on both Win2K and Linux
by doing the following:
1. Download the TexLive CD image and cut a CD.
2. Install the entire TeX distribution
from the TexLive CD.
3. Follow Sebastian Rahtz's directions from the
above webpage *to the letter* to install PassiveTex
in the new TeX installation.
Like FOP, it isn't perfect, but it is useful.
Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street
Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796
Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887
email: bobs@caldera.com